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The voice was gentle, like a scalpel petting the short hairs of your throat.

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Vernor Vinge
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: October 2
Computer Scientist
Mathematician
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Waukesha
Wisconsin
Vernor Steffen Vinge
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Hair
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When I began writing science fiction in the middle 60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that took decades to percolate into the cultural consciousness now the lead time seems more like eighteen months.
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Life is a green madness just now, trying to squeeze the last bit of warmth from the season.
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Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as its own simulator in the case of natural selection.
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I say, let's learn more and then speculate.
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The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.
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Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.
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I never guessed I could cry so hard my face hurt.
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All evil and good is petty before Nature. Personally, we take comfort from this, that there is a universe to admire that cannot be twisted to villainy or good, but which simply is.
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Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace.
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Politics may come and go, but Greed goes on forever.
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Hexapodia as the key insight...I haven't had a chance to see the famous video from Straumli Realm, except as an evocation. (My only gateway onto the Net is very expensive.) Is it true that humans have six legs?
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I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans natural competitiveness and the possibilities inherent in technology.
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IA is something that is proceeding very naturally, in most cases not even recognized by its developers for what it is.
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I am suggesting that we recognize that in network and interface research there is something as profound (and potential wild) as Artificial Intelligence.
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Effective translation of natural languages comes awfully close to requiring a sentient translator program.
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Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.
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If there be only hours, at least learn what there is time to learn.
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We’re long on high principles and short on simple human understanding.
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How to explain? How to describe? Even the omniscient viewpoint quails.
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How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
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